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Volume V, umber 5
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Long Beach, California 5 February 1938
Chick Goes Up for Fleet Finals Mysteries of the Sea
Last week at Navy Field, Long
Beach, Chick, our 118- lb. ban ta m­weight
wrestler took on and decidedly
won a victory over Matherly of the
WEST VIRGINIA. He is now up for
All Navy bouts, held at the same place,
Navy Field, Long Beach.
Chick, a good little shipmate, has
come up under the careful supervision
of " Headlock" Wellbourn, our genial
Jimmy Legs, to develop into a mighty
smooth matman.
If the " powers that be" in such mat­ters
are with our little representative
( Continned on Page 4.)
pLOUGHING through
the ceiling of a
vast watery realm, a
ship scarce scratches
the surface of a world
so mysterious and so filled with natu­ral
wonders as to be beyond human
conception. What lies below our man­euvering
at sea?
Mountains raise austere heads above
most cloud layers, canyons tear huge
chunks out of the terrain; yet the floor
of the ocean has series of mountain
ranges and valleys between that would
dwarf these dry land marvels. Printed
figures on a chart show the depths of
the ocean. On the high seas these
soundings run in
straight lines; inade­quately
few they are
like tiny threads on
an limitless expanse.
More than three- fifths of the globe is
covered with water. We can only guess
at life and the formations down there
in the cold dank chill of the depths.
In ancient times and even later,
monsters were believed to exist which
rendered travel on uncharted waters
perilous. These were mainly myths
conjured out of minds fed by the
superstition and the dread of the un­known.
However. many tales have been
told of strange huge sea serpents and
sea animals seen in modern times by
the crew and passengers of various
ships. The average person doubts.
Yet in this comparatively unknown
world there might live such creatures.
How can we be sure just because we
haven't seen.
This is accepted. In tropical waters
where dark skinned, pearl seeking na­tives
dive to incredible depths ( some­times
well over one hundred feet)
lurking dangers are ever present.
Huge clams, a thousand pounds or
more in weight, are ready to clamp
shut on a leg or arm. There is no es­cape
save for cutting off the seized
member. Hideous octupii, man eating
sharks, and sudden changes in pres­sure
make their life truly a hazard­ous
one. The barracuda and the manta
( blanket fish, huge ray, or devil fish)
also wreak their ghastly toll.
Untold wealth, hid forever from the
eyes of humans, and swept by only
the gentle bottom currents of the
ocean's floor, will lie there until it
slowly disentegrates into the limbo
( Continued on Palre 3.)